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  The Caballero's Way

  O. Henry

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  "The Caballero's Way" is a short story by the American author O. Henry. It was first published in the July 1907 issue of Everybody's Magazine and was collected in the anthology The Heart of the West later the same year.
  The story introduces the Cisco Kid, a fast-shooting caballero who murders for sport. Lieutenant Sandridge, a ranger who is after the outlaw, goes to see Tonia, the beautiful girlfriend of the Kid. They fall in love, and Tonia begs Sandridge to kill the Kid in order to ensure their safety. Unbeknownst to the lovers, the Kid overhears their plan. Although a ruthless killer, the Cisco Kid is proud of being a gentleman who knows how to treat a lady. Since it would be against his code of behavior to lay a hand on a woman, he hatches an appropriate counterplan to deal with the situation.

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  Painter and Versatile Artist...

  Bert Alexander Petzold

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  Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso's art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly reinvented himself.
  
  From the first formative years in A Coruña via Barcelona and Madrid to Paris around 1900, a vivid picture emerges of an era in which studios, cafés and galleries became arenas for experimentation. It was precisely here that the journey began towards those Picasso paintings that changed the way we see, and towards an oeuvre that glittered between tradition and radical departure. Clear and accessible, the text guides you through Picasso's changes of style and makes the development of individual key works easy to follow.
  
  You experience the Blue Period with its quiet, melancholic figures and cool colour spaces that speak of poverty, loss and compassion. Then the Rose Period opens up, lighter in tone, warmer in palette, full of circus life and fine observation. The great rupture becomes tangible when 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' appeared and set painting under a new tension. From there, the book unfolds the path to Picasso's Cubism and explains plainly what Analytical Cubism achieved, how forms were broken apart, perspectives shifted, and objects reassembled as if in spaces of thought. Synthetic Cubism is described with equal precision, as collages, materials and signs built a new reality. In this way, Picasso works and Picasso paintings are not merely mentioned but explained in their ideas, so that you can confidently classify and interpret Picasso pictures, from portrait and still life to bold constructions of space.
  
  The perspective widens beyond the canvas. You discover how Picasso worked in drawing, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics, how he varied themes, sharpened motifs, and always searched for the strongest expression. The book brings you close to the pieces that are regarded as icons, 'The Old Guitarist', 'Portrait of Gertrude Stein' and the Cubist 'Still Life with Chair Caning'. Recurring image worlds also become understandable, for example bullfighting, the Minotaur, the studio, woman and mask, so that individual works become a connected way of thinking. The text shows how form, space and perspective could be rethought, and why Picasso's art did not simply depict reality, but created it again and again.
  
  A central high point is 'Guernica', often referred to in reception as Picasso's 'Guernica', which still shocks today as an image against violence and war, while also showing how art can acquire moral force. As a counter-image appears the 'Dove', often read as Picasso's dove of peace, which brought hope and responsibility into a simple form and had an impact worldwide. The non-fiction book links historical background with interpretation of the works and does not leave out present-day debates, for instance when power, relationships and self-staging are examined critically, without diminishing the stature of the oeuvre. It is precisely this balance that makes the account so valuable, because it sparks curiosity while also providing confidence when interpretation, context and technical terms matter.
  
  The author of the book is Bert Alexander Petzold, and it is ideally suited to consolidating knowledge, mastering terminology with confidence and understanding connections clearly, for preparation for examinations leading to the higher education entrance qualification and for study at university.
  
  If you are looking for a Picasso book that inspires, offers orientation and gives you language for art, then this work is your invitation to see Pablo Picasso anew and to take the fascination of his world with you.

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  Waking the Giant: Inside the...

  Gregg Evans, Matt Maher, Tyrone...

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  The true story of one football club's astonishing return to the top 
  Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many other key figures 
  Aston Villa are Europa League champions and cementing their place among England's elite — a club utterly transformed, and still rising. 
  But not so long ago the club was staring into the abyss. Locked in a cash crisis triggered by defeat in the Championship play-off final, one of English football's most historic and successful clubs stood on the brink of financial catastrophe. 
  Waking The Giant takes you inside one of the most extraordinary revival acts in modern football, from the last-minute takeover by billionaire duo Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens which saved the club, through the promotion and equally remarkable Premier League survival inspired by boyhood supporter Dean Smith, to the return to European football under Unai Emery — and the foundations laid for the triumphs that have followed. 
  To understand how Villa lifted a European trophy and reclaimed their seat at the top table of English football, you first need to understand the journey. This is where it began. 
  It is a tale of triumph plucked from the jaws of despair, several times over, with Villa frequently defying the odds to keep climbing — a club rebuilt from the ground up, piece by piece, until the unthinkable became inevitable. 
  From club record runs to great escapes from relegation and British record transfers, this is a rollercoaster ride not to be missed. 
  Featuring exclusive interviews with:Jack GrealishJohn McGinnOllie WatkinsTyrone MingsEzri KonsaAlbert AdomahDamian Vidagany, Director of Football OperationsJesus Garcia Pitarch, former sporting directorDean Smith, former managerKeith Wyness, former CEO 
  And dozens of other off-the-record conversations with key figures, managers, coaches, players and staff. 
  Waking The Giant, the latest non-fiction sports biography by Gregg Evans, is a must-read for all 21st-century football enthusiasts. Pre-order this upcoming bestseller to experience the thrilling recreation of Aston Villa's journey. 
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  HarperCollins 2025

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  The Viking Saint - Olaf II of...

  John Carr

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  The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy – and sometimes ruthlessness as well. His overriding mission was to Christianize Norway and extirpate heathenism. His unstinting efforts, often at great peril to his life, earned him the Norwegian throne in 1015, when he had barely reached his twenties. For the next fifteen years he labored against immense odds to subdue the rebellious heathen nobles of Norway while fending off Swedish hostility. Both finally combined against Olaf in 1030, when he fell bravely in battle not far from Trondheim, still only in his mid-thirties. After his body was found to possess healing powers, and reports of them spread from Scandinavia to Spain and Byzantium, Olaf II was canonized a saint 134 years later. He remains Norway’s patron saint as well as a legendary warrior. Yet more remarkably, he remains a saint not only of the Protestant church but also of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches – perhaps the only European fighting saint to achieve such acceptance.

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  Balkan Bombshells - Contemporary...

  Will Firth

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  A collection to whet the appetite of anyone wishing to learn more about a region rich in history, folklore and (her)stories. Telling it like a woman does not mean literature for women only: it provides an insight into half of humanity, a window onto the lives of citizens who work, love and develop their inner lives. This collection brings together the voices of a wide selection of prize-winning and established authors:
  Balkan Bombshells brings together established Serbian and Montenegrin writers like Svetlana Slapšak, Jelena Lengold (winner of the EU Prize for Literature 2013), Dana Todorović and Olja Kneżević (author of Catherine the Great and the Small, Istros 2020), together with a select group of up-coming writers: Marijana Čanak (1982, Serbia): "Awakened" (Probuđena) follows the early years of a girl from a very simple background, who discovers she has extrasensory powers. A gruesome fascination with biology allows her to attend high school, where she ends up sewing a voodoo doll to take revenge on a molesting teacher. Marijana Dolić (1990, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Serbia): "Notes from the attic" (Zapisi iz potkrovlja), originally diary entries, are intense mediatations on faith, love and hope – poignant testimony to a struggle to cope in difficult times. Ana Miloš (1992, Serbia): "Peace" (Mir) portrays a woman struggling with disparate feelings after her only child dies. She has long since broken up with the child's father. She enjoys finally having time for herself, but she has to confront accusations of people around her that she is heartless. Once a mother, always a mother? Katarina Mitrović (1991, Serbia):"Small death" (Mala smrt). We are introduced to a fearful young woman who is far from happy with life, and we follow her on a summer holiday by the Adriatic, where a halfhearted romantic adventure takes a scary turn. Andrea Popov Miletić (1985, Serbia):|: excerpt from the novel Young pioneers, we are seaweed (Pioniri maleni, mi smo morska trava; 2019). This stand-alone excerpt is a poetic flashback to her childhood in the province of Vojvodina in the Yugoslav era, to holidays by the Mediterranean, and to feelings of belonging and home. Lena Ruth Stefanović (1970, Sebria/ Montenegro): "Zhenya" is a fragment from her 2016 novel Daughter of the Childless Man (Šćer onoga bez đece), is an entertaining meta-story about an ordinary woman in the late Soviet Union, whom the author decides to grant a new lease of life, so Zhenya studies languages, becomes a mondain writer and moves with her new husband to Montenegro, where the author loses track of her.

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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem 
  Volume 15 of the True Crime Case Histories Series 
  This True Crime collection features twelve chilling tales from the last half-century, satisfying the curiosity of those drawn to the darker side of reality. 
  While not for the faint of heart, this book appeals to listeners seeking more than mere sensationalism. Whether you're driven by a thirst for justice, a fascination with criminal psychology, or an interest in investigative techniques, these meticulously researched cases offer a window into the complexities of real-world crime. 
  A sampling of the stories includes: 
  The Griekwastad Farm Murders - In the serene farming town of Griekwastad, South Africa, a brutal triple homicide shatters the peace, leaving only a 15-year-old survivor. As detectives delve deeper into the investigation, the boy's chilling revelations unravel a sinister truth that shocks the community to its core. 
  The French Nanny - A young French woman moves to London, seeking adventure, but her dream quickly turns into a nightmare. Entrapped by her delusional employers, she endures escalating paranoia and abuse behind closed doors, while the seemingly ordinary suburban neighborhood remains oblivious to the horrors within. 
  Web of Lies - In a quiet Wisconsin town, the sudden disappearance of a young man's parents reveals a dark secret. As investigators dig into the case, they uncover a web of deceit and illusion, exposing the facade of an all-American family that harbored sinister secrets. 
  The Slumber Party - In a peaceful California suburb, a devastating house fire leads to a horrifying family tragedy. As investigators piece together the evidence, they uncover a twisted story of betrayal and vengeance, revealing the unthinkable: a mother who turned against her own children. 
  Plus, several more disturbing true crime stories, including a bonus thirteenth chapter at the end.

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